Reduced to just one entrance during the busy lunch period, people could not miss the Climate Guardians

Climate Guardians are staging ongoing ‘visitations’ to highlight that the media giant’s shameless championing of climate deniers and populists (no matter how racist and divisive) is inconsistent with its responsibility to report truthfully.

Rupert Murdoch is closely tied to hard line think tanks including Australia’s notoriously secretive and deceptive (yet highly influential) Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), which was founded by Keith Murdoch, Rupert’s father. Across the board, News Corp’s global media ‘dictatorship’ enables the ‘Big End of Town’ to perversely exploit the public sphere to further enrich its own at the expense of the many, and our global commons. Those making these choices are threatening our democracies in order to continue profiting from entrenched industries that are dangerously degrading our world.

We appreciated the time and courtesy of police who attended

Major advances in science and sustainable technologies have enabled us to create everything we need to meet basic food, water, power, shelter and education needs necessary for healthy and happy lives in fair and sustainable economies at the local level on a global scale. Effectively addressing critical and converging societal problems (deepening inequity within and between nations) and ecological crisis (the climate emergency and mass extinction to name a few) demands globally cooperative, democratically organised societies based on facts, fairness, and justice.

As human history has tragically shown time and again, unrestrained propaganda ideally feeds dysfunctional political systems that lead to dangerous socio-dynamics that enable the most power craving and cruel to exploit people and nature ruthlessly and seemingly without limits. It’s wrong for a polarising ‘propaganda machine’ like News Corp to have a lucrative media licence that allows it to hugely profit from misleading and deceptive reporting.

In advocating for a more fair and sustainable world, we hope our non-violent action will prompt other global citizens to demand that all media outlets profiting from deceptive reporting, and from fostering a culture of fear and loathing be held to account.

Climate Guardians are calling on all Federal 2019 election candidates to commit to a public Inquiry into News Corp’s ongoing breaches of trust and undue influence in Australian public life. In doing so the Angels encourage concerned global citizens to hold the Murdoch media to account wherever they are spreading misinformation and seeding division.